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Mark Ronson is showing me the Woody Allen poster that takes pride of place at the entrance to his recording studio in King's Cross, London. The studio is named after Zelig, the 1983 Allen mockumentary about the fictional character who changes identity according to his environment and appears at key moments in history.

One is possibly the coolest Jew on the planet - the other is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

In one of modern music's most unexpected collaborations, it emerged this week that super-producer Mark Ronson asked Jewish novelist Michael Chabon to write the lyrics for his new funk album, Uptown Special.

Mr Ronson, best known for producing Amy Winehouse's hit album Back to Black, has long admired